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...Mediterranean attack was part of a larger sea & air action. By heavily escorted convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...
...Germans, their plane, radio dead, was forced into the sea. They spent the next 16 days on a rubber life raft, stretching out five days' emergency rations by mixing canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy?" The crew, he said, grinned, and said, "Sure...
Best indication of how urgent the British consider the fighting in Libya: they risked a major task force to get a convoy through the Mediterranean from Gibraltar this week. No matter what the cost, it would be worth it; some help would get through...
...Italians announced that they jumped-up the convoy—a mighty one, with two aircraft carriersצff Sardinia, and at once began a running attack. In their first attack they claimed to have sunk two cruisers, one destroyer, four supply ships; to have damaged a carrier, a battleship, seven other craft. This, they boasted, was only a beginning...
Dwindling gasoline rations, fear of police checkups and painful memories of what happened last year, when an army convoy clogged the Newmarket road for three hours, kept thousands upon thousands of Derby regulars at home. Those who planned to go by rail found all special trains canceled...